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The modern plays deconstruct the principles of Stone Age where in gender and caste discrimination was in practice. The modern playwrights rework on the established hegemony, presented in the epics and counter it. The present paper analysis the reworking of the epics presented in the modern plays. There are number of plays which make us to rethink about some episodes of the epics. The research paper has analyzes two plays, namely, Five Lords,But None A Protector and The Sudraascetic at a great length in order to study the presentation of caste and gender in the epics. The analysis brought the understanding that, women were silenced in the grand narratives. But a strong voice of dissent is seen in the modern literature. The little narratives become the voice of the women. An attempt to evaluate the presentation of caste is done in The Sudraascetic. Kuvempu restructures the epic in the play and uplifts humanity. The sister text also helps to understand the true human values.